Oh man. Spring Break was so great for us this year. We haven't really done anything big or out of the ordinary since we have moved to Show Low so we have totally needed this vacation. We were just going to go down to the valley and stay with some friends and do things that the kids would love, but one night we went to visit some friends, the Pratts, and we found out that we were going to go down on the same days and we wanted to do pretty much all the same things so we changed our plans. We searched and searched and finally found this house in Phoenix that we could all rent together and we would split the cost. The Pratt's came with their 3 boys and then their daughter from Utah flew down with her 2 kids, who are about the same age as our kids, and we all shared this 3 bedroom condo house for 4 days. It was so great.
We got there on Wednesday afternoon and stopped to see our friends in Glendale and then headed up to the house and just hung out that night. Then on Thursday, we got up, ate and then got ready to go to the Phoenix Children's Museum. What it was is this big huge place that like a museum had different rooms for different things, but it was basically a giant playground for kids. There was so many cool things, the boys were in heaven. We wore them out but it was such a fun place!
Then on Friday we basically just hung out at the house and went swimming at the community pool. There wasn't anything interesting at the pool but the kids had fun playing with the adults and the teenager boys found games to keep themselves entertained. The night before we went to the pool for like a half hour when it was dark just to let the kids splash in the water and to get as much swimming in as we could. Merrick loved to just sit on the steps and splash the water. It was perfect for him. But Kayton was amazing. It took him a few minutes to be comfortable with going in the water, but once he was in he was so awesome. We bought him a little vest floaty thing and he picked up on it so quickly and wasn't really scared at all. We were so amazed how well he did. He loved being dunked under water and jumping to us and it was so fun to see him learn something new.
Later on Friday night we invited some of our friends over that we haven't seen for a while and we had pizza and just hung out and talked. I wish I could have gotten some pictures but it was so nice to have friends our age around to talk to.
Then on Saturday, we had to check out of the house that afternoon so we got up and got things all packed up while we listened to the first session of General Conference. After we got all done, we headed to Scottsdale and went to a Train Park. Both Kayton and their grandson Noah love trains so we thought it would be so great. And it was. They had an indoor room that had a bunch of model trains driving around and also had models of the towns in Arizona where the train runs through. Then outside was a carousel ride and a train ride and there was an actual train that you could pay to climb in and walk around. We rode the carousel, but Kayton absolutely hated getting on the horses. Nate just stood and held him most of the ride, but Merrick liked it. Then we all rode on the train. It was just a little upon car train that drove around the park. Kayton liked it a lot. Afterwards, we played at a park they had there and got some popsicles because it was so hot!! It was such a blast.
Then it was time to go home. We stopped at Target to get a few things and then headed home. We had such a good time and it was a great Spring Break.
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